Background*

Ms. Nicola M. Wakefield Evans, B.Juris, B.Laws (UNSW), MAICD serves as a Partner of King & Wood Mallesons. Ms. Evans has worked at the highest levels of her profession advising some of the world's largest and most successful companies in Asia, Australia and elsewhere around the world. Ms. Evans has been an M&A lawyer for 28 years at King & Wood Mallesons. She has extensive experience as an equity capital markets and M&A lawyer and has been involved in a number of significant ... and ground-breaking M&A transactions and has advised some of the largest companies in Australia, Asia and globally. She is well known in Asia where she was the Managing Partner, International at King & Wood Mallesons, Hong Kong and is rated by a number of publications as one of the Asian region's leading M&A, corporate governance, communications and resources & energy lawyers. Ms. Evans has been Non-Executive Director of Macquarie Group Limited and Macquarie Bank Limited since February 7, 2014. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Toll Holdings Limited since May 10, 2011. She has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Lend Lease Group since September 1, 2013. She serves as a Non-Executive Director of BUPA Australia & New Zealand Group. Ms. Evans is a Member of the board at Asialink (University of Melbourne) and the Law Advisory Council of the University of New South Wales Law School. She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Law Council of Australia, the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Law Society of England & Wales, the International Bar Association and Chief Executive Women. She is a qualified lawyer in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK. Ms. Evans holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Laws degree from the University of New South Wales.

Independent Non-Executive Director, Member of Audit Committee, Member of Nominating Committee, Member of Governance & Compliance Committee, Member of Risk Committee and Independent Non-Executive Director of Macquarie Bank

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